Here's a post I wrote back in 2009 on an academic study on the power of the gospel to transform men and heal families.

The conventional wisdom is that evangelical Christianity reinforces the oppression of women.

Elizabeth Brusco, a feminist Marxist scholar conducted fieldwork in Columbia from 1982-1983, and found that pentecostal conversion transformed traditional gender relations by giving women a moral authority in the home to challenge their husbands’ drinking, gambling, or adultery.